HCPC Europe Columbus Award for
Patient-friendly Packaging Design 2017

Each year HCPC Europe organises the Columbus Packaging award for Patient-friendly Packaging Design. Innovative packaging solutions help patients to take their medication as prescribed. Carefully designed packaging can make a significant contribution to patient compliance with respect to: e.g. ease of identification; clarity of instructions; visible evidence of medication taken.

The winners of the Columbus Award 2017 were announced during the award ceremony on 16 November 2017 in Kloster Eberbach (Eltville, Germany). All finalists had the opportunity to present their packs at the award ceremony.

The winner of the Columbus Award 2017 in the category of Commercially Available Products is the Metered Liquid Dosing Solution for Phensedyl BR of Abbott Healthcare® Limited.

Medicodose Systems won the Columbus Award 2017 in the concept category with their Medcompiler®.

Finalists Columbus Award 2017

As a result of this year’s judging session on we can now announce the finalists of the Columbus Award 2017. The entries were judged in two categories: ‘Commercially available products’ and ‘Concepts for new packs’.

Finalists Commercially available productsTwo of the entries that were sent in in the category ‘Commercially available products’ were selected as finalists. These are: